Needville, Texas. Since 1986.
Your coolant is either growing something or it isn't, and a plate count tells you which one three days after it mattered. The HMB X reads the biological activity in your sump while you stand at the machine.
Every number here has another number behind it
Time to a usable reading. The HMB reaction happens at enzyme speed, so the answer arrives while the shift is still running.
Published precision. Biochemical activity testing against the growth-plate method, whose colony counts are estimates with a wide published spread.
Your window to redose. A depleted biocide gives you hours before the bloom. Mark II declines slowly and recovers slowly, which is the whole point of it.
Building the same two products out of Needville, Texas, and answering the phone ourselves the entire time.
Shops running BioTech testers and stabilizer, across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
How long some customers on the full program have gone without a wholesale disposal of their fluid.
The instrument
The HMB X is built to be used by people with little or no laboratory experience. Take the sample, add the reagent, read the biomass range off the display.
What we make
BioTech does not sell coolant, which is the point. There is nothing here steering you toward a fluid. We make the instrument that tells you what your fluid is doing, and the additive that keeps it doing the right thing.
15 minutes
A handheld instrument that reads how much biological activity is happening in your sump right now, and gives you the number in fifteen minutes. No incubator, no plates, no waiting until Thursday to learn about Monday.
HMB X rapid tester detailsBiocide against stabilizer
Plot the microbial population of a sump over a year and the two approaches do not look remotely alike. That difference is not cosmetic. It is the difference between redosing on a calendar and redosing on an emergency.
Biocides usually go in continuously, daily or weekly, and a program controlling both bacteria and fungi normally needs a bactericide and a fungicide together. Mark II is effective against both and, if it is needed at all, goes in monthly or bimonthly. Many fluid manufacturers build it into their own formulations so there is nothing to add at the tank at all. How the stabilizer works.
The Zero Waste program
Four things in that order, run around whatever coolant you already buy. It is not complicated and it is not new. It is just done consistently, which is the part most shops never get to.
Real time, so a rise is something you act on rather than something you find out about after it has already cost you a sump.
Solid particles, the dirt and fine metal that wreck coolant performance and give microbes somewhere to live. Filter matched to your setup.
Honestly, our filters do not do this. Skimming needs access to the top of the sump and plenty of machines do not offer it. We will tell you what to buy.
Mark II holds the level down instead of knocking it down. That is what turns a fluid change into something you stop scheduling.
The claims we make for it are exactly these six, and no others: never have rancid coolant, save on labor, extend tool life significantly, eliminate disposal of liquid derived from coolant, mitigate coolant associated health problems, reduce chemical purchases. What the program involves.
Straight answers
Both of those are things we could plausibly sell you and do not, which is why our advice on fluids and on oil removal is worth something. When a skimmer is what you need, we will look at your configuration and point you at someone else's equipment.
1986
Trading since
~20
Countries in service
15 min
To a biological reading
±3%
Published test precision
Before you call
Needville, Texas
Forty years of doing this, and it still starts the same way. Tell us the fluid, the machines, and what has gone wrong with it. (281) 750-1881, and a person picks up.
